At 09:29 AM 5/10/2001 -0400, Kevin Meltzer wrote:
>On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:17:30AM -0400, Jeff Pinyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>spew-ed forth:
> > On May 10, Crandell, Daniel (TIFPC) said:
> >
> > >Same situation here on this end. Buy oreilly book, "mastering regular
> > >expressions" 34.95 barnes and noble, it has picture of the owl.
> >
> > *THAT* is the reason I am writing my book. J. Friedl is not going to be
> > working on the second edition of that book,
Really? I recall a message from him to p5p several months ago when he said
that he was. Where did you see that that's no longer true?
>and it is *four* years old.
> >
> > A lot has changed for Perl's regexes in that time.
>
>However, the Owl book is still a good, recommended read. If you are new to REs
>in general, I suggest picking it up.. it isn't a waste of money.
Totally agree. The new features in Perl regexen in the last four years
fall almost totally into the categories either of hard-to-understand
advanced features, or features which are unusual for regular expressions
and hard to understand in the generally-understood context of how a regular
expression engine ought to work.
I'm looking forward to your new book, Jeff.
